Facebook’s ThreatExchange is a social platform for sharing cybersecurity threats

Doing what it does best, Facebook has created a platform or a mini-social network, if you will but this time for cybersecurity specialists. The concept is that researchers and professionals can learn from each other, and help keep everyone’s systems safer. Security threats aren’t typically relegated to just one target, and the lack of communication between malware targets ends badly for everyone, according to ThreatExchange.

Doing what it does best, Facebook has created a platform — or a mini-social network, if you will — but this time for cybersecurity specialists. The concept is that researchers and professionals can learn from each other, and help keep everyone’s systems safer.

“Our goal is that organizations anywhere will be able to use ThreatExchange to share threat information more easily, learn from each other’s discoveries, and make their own systems safer,” Mark Hammell, Facebook’s manager of threat infrastructure, wrote in a blog post announcing the project.